Rusty tries to bring the fun of Gus's to Duds For Dudes when he's in charge of the store.
Synopsis[]
Stuck at work without any fun to have? Why not bring the fun to you!
After another day at school, Lincoln meets up with his friends (whom Rusty dubs, the "Dawg Squad", much to Stella's disapproval) just as Rodney drives up to them, telling Rusty he has to go to Hazeltucky to swap his fabric swatches. Therefore, Rusty is in charge of his shop, Duds for Dudes. Despite having already allocated some time with his friends at Gus's, Rusty agrees to help out. At the shop, Rodney teaches Rusty how to take care of the items there. After his dad leaves the premises, Rusty calls his friends, who are all having watermelon pizzas, but the signal cuts out. Rusty tries to regain connection while customers enter the shop. Rusty inadvertantly steers Mr. Grouse to a leather tee as the signal returns. Rusty's spinning dance accidentally sends his phone flying towards Morpheus' direction, knocking him down. As Rusty continues to watch his friends having fun at Gus's, he accidentally tells Tyler that the chinos he was wearing wasn't suitable on him, leaving him saddened.
Just then, Rusty gets another call from his dad, telling him he won't be back for a few more hours, leaving him occupied with the shop and unable to join his friends at Gus's. However, Rusty gets an idea: bring the fun to the shop. Stella, however, disapproves, telling him he needs to work. Tyler scoots over to the counter and approaches Rusty with a particular pair of pants, but Rusty waves them off as he's busy having the time of his life. However, he doesn't know who the pants are intended for; he has inadvertantly sold Mick Swagger's pants. According to Rodney, big customers like Mick have the ability to determine the public reception of Duds for Dudes with one social media post, and if he finds out the pants were sold and used by someone else, the shop will go overboard. The friends now have to save the pants.
After a long day trying to find Tyler, the friends are exhausted, though Cheryl and Meryl pass by, raving about a club whose DJ had "far-out pants". They follow the Farrell twins into the club, where it is revealed Tyler has worn out the pants so much they aren't recognizable as Mick's anymore. After a quick trade where Zach gives up his newly-acquired space-themed pants for Mick's, the group races back to Duds for Dudes, but further complications arise when the pants get stuck in Rusty's back bicycle wheel, sending him crashing towards a tree - further complicated even more when a nearby bird unloads its droppings on it. Exhausted and defeated, the group heads back to the shop with the battered pants.
The Spokesmen of the shop.
Rodney returns with the proper swatches and Rusty confesses that the pants were ruined. Mick comes into the shop and glances at the pants; though the response is initially harsh, the Spokes men point him towards their motto: "Learn what a dude wants and what a dude means." With that, they convince Mick of the new design, and he exclaims that he loves the battered pants after all, giving the shop a positive review on social media. Satisfied, Mick then takes them all out for Flippies, accidentally leaving Mr. Grouse, who had just put on the leather suit, behind; the suit then tears on him.
This and its sister episode are the first episodes outside of the Casagrande story arc where all ten of Lincoln's sisters are absent from both segments.
This episode was written by Caitlin Fein, who is mostly known for her contributions to the Loud House graphic novels.
This is Mick Swagger's second appearance without Luna, following "Scoop Snoop".
This is the first episode released since "Scoop Snoop" on April 8, 2022 in which Stella has voice lines.
When Mick Swagger expresses his support for the dirtied pants, an instrumental of "Double Duty" from "In the Mick of Time" plays.
The premise of this episode is similar to those of "Come Sale Away" and "Sofa, So Good", as all involve a person or group of people losing something important (Lily's blanket/the furniture/Mick Swagger's pants) and facing the dilemma of retrieving it from the person who took it (garage sale customers/Flip and his customers/Tyler) under a time limit.
This is the second episode in which the members of the Morticians Club appear without Lucy and Haiku.
This is also the first episode to feature only one member from the club (outside of Lucy), which is Morpheus.
